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Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- ▶ 3:53 Shaan Puri I want to invest in Silicon Valley companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 Sam Parr Yeah, if there was like a one-hit wonder, like, song list for Silicon Valley, that would be Chumbawamba.
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 6:07 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Now, neither Jason or I have been in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 45:32 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Like the herd, certainly out of Silicon Valley is like AGI is imminent.
The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
- ▶ 8:15 Jordi Hays Because there's been, there's been a number, there's kind of like a, I like this, uh, I like this bet because there's actually like a graveyard of Silicon Valley companies that have like made efforts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:43 Jordi Hays And so that's a good example of like, when you're picking these companies, there's a, there's, there's like this, you know, in Silicon Valley, we all want to believe that the founder with no experience can just come in and just dominate…
I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
- ▶ 15:24 Sam Parr So you, you met, we met so many, I mean, I met them via you, but you met so many amazing people in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 27:58 Shaan Puri I stopped playing the, like, Silicon Valley dream.
- ▶ 43:59 Sam Parr That, um, I think that's a massive turn that you have made, because, um, I think that, like, I've known you for this whole time, and there was this period of, like, you wanting to be the man, which we all wanted to be the man, you know, in…
How NOT to Make $1,000,000 (I Tried 17 Ways)
- ▶ 29:02 Shaan Puri I think it's one of the biggest benefits of coming to Silicon Valley.
5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
- ▶ 33:39 Greg Isenberg Like these are the tools that anyone could use and there's no capital restrictions and you don't need to be in Silicon Valley to win.
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 22:19 Shaan Puri You know, what I think is cool about you guys is that, um, your OG Silicon Valley, like, you know, true and true, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:50 Sam Parr Growth marketing or, but, but also product and just very traditional Silicon Valley CEO.
- ▶ 49:41 Sam Parr Dude, the top comment was like, oh, uh, three Silicon Valley rich guys just discovered hobbies.
- ▶ 1:00:01 Jeff Bonforte It had not been quite the persistent system that they were in those first, like, four, 10, when they were doing Boston and the Valley, they were going back and forth. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:39 Rick Marini One of the smartest guys in Silicon Valley, and that's a very high bar.
How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
The man who made a billion off blueberries
How this dumb doll makes $2M per day
- ▶ 41:40 Shaan Puri So, um, so I moved to Silicon Valley, and I'm working with this guy, Michael Birch. 2 times in the scene
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 26:21 Matt Mazzeo It was like the same thing that like, you know, the, when, when people were like spending time at like the research labs and, you know, in Silicon Valley to like get access to their first computers, it felt like he was going through that…
How the smartest founders are winning in AI
- ▶ 59:47 Shaan Puri So right when I moved to San Francisco, I remember we, you know, I joined Birch's startup studio, and there was a single mobile developer, and he would, my very first day, he was giving a tutorial to the other 12 engineers who were like,…
Business Is Now On Easy Mode
- ▶ 25:32 Greg Isenberg And we then move on to a Silicon Valley startup called Bolt.new.
Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000
- ▶ 32:27 Shaan Puri In Silicon Valley, there's this idea, there's this phrase, which is, you know, ideas are, are, are worthless. 2 times in the scene
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 40:06 Shaan Puri So in, in Silicon Valley, I feel like
- ▶ 59:12 James Currier Of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- ▶ 18:42 Shaan Puri In Silicon Valley, the smartest tech people, nobody was working on defense. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:43 Shaan Puri And tech, tech chops of Silicon Valley, and that's what's happening.
6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
- ▶ 2:44 Shaan Puri In Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)
We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
- ▶ 0:55 Sam Parr We want to talk about, like, the OG stories of Silicon Valley, because you've been covering this stuff forever.
- ▶ 2:15 Nick Bilton So I was a reporter at the New York Times and, um, in Silicon Valley covering tech, I was writing about Apple and Facebook and Twitter and, and I 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Nick Bilton But in Silicon Valley, it's a bunch of nerds that, you know, talk a big game and, and
- ▶ 22:05 Nick Bilton Dozens, and I remember seeing this, like, when I was a, uh, just a beat reporter covering Silicon Valley, and, and I would, my days were like, it was like office hours, and you'd have, like, startup after startup in, like, 2009, 11, 12…
- ▶ 44:03 Nick Bilton Look, I think, like, there are really good people in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 55:37 Nick Bilton The world works is by listening to other people's opinions, and like, and I think the reason that so many people in Silicon Valley have, have veered to the right, which they have, is because the left tells them, oh, you can't think like…
- ▶ 1:05:25 Nick Bilton And I think one of the things that frustrates me about Silicon Valley and the tech bro culture is everyone's trying to optimize their life for the most number of seconds of this and that and the other.
The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
- ▶ 0:40 Sam Parr Well, like, a guy said that, a guy at Silicon Valley said he's gonna build a commercial airline
- ▶ 4:04 Shaan Puri So let me tell you this guy's story because right now in Silicon Valley, there is a buzzword.
- ▶ 18:05 Sam Parr He's been telling me about it for years, and that's originally how I heard about this, and he was like, this guy is just magical, and I, I, I just couldn't, I'm like, a Silicon Valley software person starting a jet company?
- ▶ 49:55 Sam Parr Well, he's like the real life Xin Yang from, uh, Silicon Valley, where, like, he's just sitting there smoking cigs, and, like, someone's like, you know, you really need safety stuff, and he's like, who says?
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 3:15 Shaan Puri What you're looking at are some of the OGs of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 15:51 Shaan Puri He raises a fund for twenty five million dollars from other people to be, uh, the Silicon Valley, you know, angel investing fund, uh, SV angel, if you've heard of it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:44 Shaan Puri And again, Ron Conway badly wants this deal, but he, he does what Paul Graham calls the most generous act in the history of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:13 Shaan Puri Um, now he did not actually invest in Google, so I'm cheating a little bit, but this is part of, you said, well, my takeaway is the magic of Silicon Valley. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:07 Shaan Puri And like, that's the crazy thing about Silica Valley is like proximity is power principle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:39 Shaan Puri Uh, and, and even when it's staring in the face, I think I've told the story before, but I remember sitting in a conference room in Silicon Valley, um, in 20, maybe 1415, something like that. 3 times in the scene
Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- ▶ 18:43 Sheel Mohnot Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 24:39 Sam Parr A few of them are in a thing or two that I know about, and I think it'd be interesting since you see so many ideas with the fund and you've been well connected in Silicon Valley for, I don't know, 20 years now.
How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)
- ▶ 25:48 Shaan Puri If you want to be in tech, go to Silicon Valley.
The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 6:49 Shaan Puri So he does the thing that normally in Silicon Valley, the founders are very afraid to fight back against the VCs.
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 41:15 Shaan Puri They're gonna be super hungry for content, and the other sneaky thing about these, by the way, that I, I didn't really fully realize until I moved to Silicon Valley, which is,
Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
- ▶ 0:09 Shaan Puri So he's kind of done both sides, the big Silicon Valley game, as well as the bootstrap, make something out of nothing form of entrepreneurship.
- ▶ 0:53 Shaan Puri Okay, today you have the Silicon Valley success story. 4 times in the scene
I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company
- ▶ 3:24 Christina Cacioppo Who's gonna take a check from me versus, in my head at the time, Matt Kohler, this, uh, GP who's no longer at Benchmark, but had this, like, illustrious Silicon Valley career of, like, LinkedIn, Facebook Benchmark, you know, and you're…
- ▶ 26:40 Shaan Puri I've always felt that if you build a great Silicon Valley company, internally in your company, you should be a totally normal person, but outside, you should have that, like, 10% crazy.
3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight
Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life
How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
- ▶ 1:29 Shaan Puri And iTunes U was like this little part of iTunes that was like for lectures in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 39:17 Shaan Puri And I live in Silicon Valley.
You Have 70 Days to Win the Year
The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire
- ▶ 29:44 Shaan Puri Invested in like pretty much every hit Silicon Valley startup. 3 times in the scene
How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
- ▶ 3:48 Shaan Puri Cause you know, I, I had that point early in Silicon Valley where I initially had no money.
- ▶ 31:31 Sam Parr It was like, um, what Silicon Valley nerdy people are doing for fun.
The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- ▶ 17:29 Shaan Puri And this was a Silicon Valley startup that was basically like you pay for, you pay for a, basically like a task rabbit specifically to help 2 times in the scene
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 18:45 Shaan Puri Silicon Valley bank used to be the bank of, of choice for Silicon Valley startups.
The $70M/yr Sports Bar + Sleepy Industries Worth $100M
- ▶ 40:52 Shaan Puri Alright, so I have a friend who is named Stan, and Stan is a Silicon Valley OG, and what's interesting about Stan, uh, Stan is that 3 times in the scene
The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet
- ▶ 19:27 Shaan Puri Silicon Valley, you sell your company.
Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- ▶ 43:13 Shaan Puri Early group of people to come together in Silicon Valley, right?
Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
- ▶ 13:29 Sam Parr So they would just find Silicon Valley companies and their whole thing.
- ▶ 25:16 Jack Smith Like, I think they're just Silicon Valley branding.
- ▶ 52:40 Shaan Puri He's like, you need to move to Silicon Valley.
Is This The End Of The Pod?
- ▶ 27:23 Shaan Puri And he's like, I have a lot of clients that are like you, Silicon Valley types, businessmen, you know, logical left brain thinker types.
You Don’t Need A Mentor. Focus On THIS Instead
- ▶ 13:40 Shaan Puri He was a Silicon Valley billionaire, built multiple successful companies, was living the life, had a cool office in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo
- ▶ 17:58 Shaan Puri I think of somebody who I recognize maybe as a VC in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:00 Sarah Guo Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are seeking is like not a good idea.
How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder
- ▶ 9:32 Shaan Puri He then meets with Sequoia, the number one VC in Silicon Valley.
How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson Story
- ▶ 0:23 Shaan Puri He started off as a barista, ended up creating a design agency that was super, super successful, designed Slack and a bunch of other popular, uh, Silicon Valley products that you may have, may have used.
- ▶ 7:32 Andrew Wilkinson And I found these Silicon Valley startups posting, and this was like what, like what you would call today, like product design or interface design.
- ▶ 48:32 Shaan Puri I thought, you know, I live in Silicon Valley and so, you know, in Hollywood, you're measured on your, your beauty and your IMDB in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee
- ▶ 47:57 Shaan Puri And what's your take on the alternative meat movement thing where in Silicon Valley, there's a bunch of startups that are trying to grow beef from cells so that you won't have to farm the animal.
- ▶ 57:57 Shaan Puri This guy was the youngest VC in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
EXCLUSIVE: $3B Founder Reveals His Next Big Idea | Brett Adcock Interview
- ▶ 27:39 Brett Adcock And we have a certain philosophy around like what to do and, and how to build hardware and software that, or I think we're kind of like the anti Silicon Valley company in Silicon Valley as it relates to this. 2 times in the scene
$100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
- ▶ 31:00 Shaan Puri To understand the vesting cycles of the top one percent of Silicon Valley talent in order to maybe create a recruiting, either a recruiting data business or a recruiting service business on top of that data.
The GameStop Guy Has Returned… (And Has A New $210M Bet)
The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive...
CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment
- ▶ 32:16 Shaan Puri So that's why he was in Silicon Valley meeting people was like, these are long-term relationships.
The AI App Doing $6M With 1 Employee
- ▶ 39:44 Sam Parr We need to start, we need to change because in Silicon Valley, people make these introductions and they don't ask for anything.
- ▶ 44:48 Shaan Puri Like this guy actually like the big name Silicon Valley products. 3 times in the scene
From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- ▶ 27:34 Shaan Puri Because most of the entrepreneurs around me in Silicon Valley were like, oh, B to B SaaS, you know, what's a problem?
- ▶ 45:44 Joe Lonsdale Not that like I'm so smart, but Silicon Valley itself had gotten way ahead just because it brought talent from all over the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:40 Joe Lonsdale Like if we show up and we're like these like quirky, 20 one-year-olds in Silicon Valley, 2 times in the scene
Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1
- ▶ 16:01 Jeremy Giffon The idea, like, the, the, what made me notice this, um, originally was, especially in the valley, every, like, billionaire has one or two really young, smart boys, generally, who just kind of, like, float around them, and there's this kind…
- ▶ 51:50 Jeremy Giffon All the Silicon Valley guys are really when like behind closed doors are really, um, envious of the New York hedge fund guys.
My Step-By-Step Process To Building a $1M+ Business
- ▶ 19:26 Shaan Puri In Silicon Valley, if you go pitch for investors, you're basically making a promise.
Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- ▶ 0:28 Shaan Puri What is this lawsuit between two of the power players of Silicon Valley and what's our take on it, which might surprise you as well as some of the brilliant, the nuance, the marketing and PR that's going on here.
- ▶ 32:32 Shaan Puri By the way, this is also the magic of Silicon Valley.
3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It
- ▶ 34:46 Shaan Puri It's like you have Eastern European company versus a Silicon Valley company. 2 times in the scene
My Mother-in-Law Started a $1M Side Hustle In Her 50's
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